Four members of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration and a police liaison will represent New Orleans' government on a committee that will help pick a monitor to oversee the implementation of a consent decree mandating sweeping changes to the NOPD. A court filing on Friday shows that Chief Administrative Officer Andy Kopplin, Chief of Staff Judy Reese Morse, Chief Financial Officer Norman Foster, Chief Deputy City Attorney Erica Beck and Daniel Cazenave - a liaison between Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas and the U.S. Department of Justice - will serve on the committee on behalf of the Landrieu administration.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department selected five more members for the committee. They are Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin Jr.; Joshua A. Ederheimer, principal deputy director of the Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services; Emily Gunston, of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division's Special Litigation Section; Christy Lopez, the Special Litigation Section's Deputy Chief; and Stephen Parker, an assistant U.S. attorney based out of Memphis.

Austin, Gunston, Lopez and Parker are listed as the consent decree's litigating attorneys for the Justice Department. Ederheimer and his organization provide grants to police departments around the country.

Friday was the deadline for the city and the feds to unveil their selections to the consent decree monitor evaluation committee. A firm must be selected to be the consent decree monitor within 90 days of Jan. 11, when U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan approved the consent decree.

Unveiled in July, the NOPD consent decree is a sweeping, 492-point blueprint for change in a police force with a history of civil rights abuses. Landrieu has asked Morgan to reverse her approval, but it does not appear she is inclined to do so.

She recently denied a separate request from the Landrieu administration to temporarily halt implementation of the consent decree, explaining that beginning the process of adopting the court-mandated changes to NOPD is in the public's best interest since the Justice Department determined that the police force had engaged in unconstitutional practices.

Previously, Landrieu and his staff have maintained that the consent decree was tainted when former federal prosecutor Sal Perricone anonymously bashed NOPD online. Landrieu also says that Perricone, as a point man for the Justice Department in the decree negotiations, had "ulterior motives" that the city only discovered after his vitriolic posts on NOLA.com came to light.

Perricone left the U.S. Attorney's Office last March, four months before the city agreed to the consent decree. But the city argues that it didn't learn about Perricone's vitriolic posts until later, when one of his NOLA.com handles, "legacyusa," was linked to him.

The mayor has suggested that Perricone's influence maybe made the consent decree far more comprehensive and expensive than it needed to be. The city also has argued that questions have surfaced about whether reforms to the police's private detail system -- namely, putting side jobs for officers under city management -- violated federal labor laws.

Mainly, however, the city alleges that it was duped by the Justice Department, which struck a deal with Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman to fix conditions at the jail after the NOPD consent decree was unveiled. That deal could come with a price tag of as much as $17 million a year, which Landrieu says New Orleans simply can't afford.